1949, a lifelike white dove was painted on the poster of the World Peace Conference held in Paris, which quickly became popular in major European cities. Seeing the vigorous flying white dove, people pray that the peace it symbolizes will come safely.

In the first 50 years of the 20th century, there were two wars. How people yearn for a peaceful life. This white dove symbolizes peace. In fact, in his mind, this white dove has existed for at least nearly sixty years.

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Among Picasso's works in his life, except guernica, which accused German fascists, he painted doves of peace.

Speaking of Picasso's painting The Dove of Peace, there is another tragic story:1In August, 940, fascist bandits captured the French capital Paris. Near Picasso's studio, there is an old neighbor named Mish. Mish's grandson is a child who likes raising pigeons. He usually uses bamboo poles to tie white stripes to attract his pigeons.

After the German invaders occupied Paris, his young mind suddenly burst into hatred and anger. He thought that white cloth meant surrendering to the enemy, and he would never give in to the enemy, so he changed into red cloth.

One day, he was attracting pigeons with red strips of cloth. A group of fascist gangsters rushed upstairs, punched and kicked him, and inhumanely threw him out of the window, causing him to die in the street. The gangster also killed all the pigeons in his pigeon coop with bayonets.

The grieving old man Mish knocked on the door of Picasso's studio with a bloody pigeon in his hand and asked the painter to draw a pigeon for him in memory of his grandson who was killed by fascism. Picasso soothed the old man Mish, who was in tears, and drew a dove with wings and wings for him sadly. This is the embryonic form of the dove of peace.

After the end of World War II, opposing war and demanding peace became the common aspiration of people all over the world, and the world movement to defend peace flourished. Picasso also enthusiastically devoted himself to the movement of defending peace. He drew a dignified and beautiful dove of peace with a brush in his hand, which was loved by people all over the world.

He painted three doves of peace for the World Peace Conference, and these three doves have also become the patterns of stamps of various countries for many times.

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